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...revealing that when Bush eulogized former Texas Governor Ann Richards last week, he saluted not just the ability of his home state's legendary political characters to "talk Texan" but also their physical presence--"people larger than life, people that could fill the stage." The President has been on just about every imaginable stage lately. He went to Capitol Hill; gave a prime-time address; held the Rose Garden news conference; invited an anchorman into his limo, an editorialist onto Air Force One and a columnist into the Oval; held an off-the-record session for conservative radio hosts...
...many ways, Richards embodied both the old and the new Texas. She had changed the state, but the political ground had also shifted under her as conservative Democrats fled to the fast-growing Republican Party. Her defeat was a shock to the national media. After all, she was a Texan loved beyond the Red River (though to some back home, her accent always seemed suspiciously thicker on Larry King). Most of the men around the Quorum Club table are gone, and now she is too. But the image of her there remains, as a wily woman who played the game...
...That set up a Sunday coronation in Paris, along the Champs-Elysees. By custom, there's no racing on the final day if the leader has a significant advantage. Thus, an American was set to win an eighth straight Tour de France title. (A certain Texan named Armstrong won the last seven...
Blake Gottesman, a 26-year-old Texan who met the President when he was dating Bush's daughter Jenna in high school, has the title of personal aide to the President. It's a job that traditionally meant being "body guy" to the chief, the young aide who carries the souvenirs and dispenses the Purell. But Bush is uniquely sensitive about his personal ecology, and Gottesman has blossomed into a systems analyst, gatekeeper and diplomat who serves as the membrane between the President and the rest of the staff...
...never been one to shy away from new adventures.She has backpacked through Europe and Asia and has volunteered in rural Ethiopia at a school and health clinic. But these experiences have been marked by repeated returns to Harvard, a place that gave her opportunities this native Texan might not have had.“I was always aware of how different my life would have been had I not come to Harvard,” she says. Now back again as the director of international admissions for the College, Worth’s innovation and dedication has made an impression...